The 2025 Massachusetts Poetry Festival

Five diverse Barrow Street authors participate in a round robin reading of poems about the complexities of identity. What does it mean to identify as a woman, a gay man, an Asian American, or Latinx? How do our identities intersect with our poetry and each other? Our poems range from speculative feminist dystopian to queer philosophical investigations to the exploration of cultural borders to a Latinx lyrics to identity, violence, sexuality, and the power of witness. A discussion will ensue.